10 Tips To Survive Preceptorship
Greetings my fellow nurses who are about to precept new grads or just a fellow nurse who wants to learn how to survive their preceptorship from their seasoned nurses.
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1. Punctuality: Don’t arrive at work on time, but arrive at work 20-30 min early before you clock in.
2. Preparedness: Plan in Advanced and be organized with all of your nursing supplies, pens, stethoscope, trauma scissors, etc.
3. CarePlan: know each patients own customized plan of care for each of their own different diagnoses.
4. Nutrition: Brain needs fuel, so get your caloric intake every 2-3 hrs to stay functioning properly.
5. Time Managenemt: Triage all of your patients accordingly via, Airway, Breathing, Circulation.
6. Critical thinking scenarios: Utilizing the Nursing Process because we will ask you scenarios so we can see how much you already know.
7. Testing Your Comfort Zone: We will analyze how comfortable you are if you’re heading to all the codes to assist.
8. Focus Assessment: We want all of you guys to initiate the first head to toe Assessment before we do as preceptors so we can compare notes.
9. Great Attitude: You can always teach skills, but you can’t teach a great attitude, so attitude is everything. We look for professionalism, being personable and a strong-minded nurse.
10. Treats/Coffee: Surprise all of your preceptors with a small treat. We are suckers for small treats. Lol
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Hope all of these help? If there’s any other tips anyone would like to share below please do